Deepak Kumar Sahu | Senior Engineering Manager

01. About Me

I was the founding DevOps hire at Storable India's Global Capability Center (GCC), where I built the DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Observability practices from the ground up. Today, I lead teams that manage infrastructure serving 20+ products across 60+ Kubernetes clusters on AWS.

With 13+ years in the industry, I've progressed from hands-on infrastructure engineering at Mindtree working alongside Microsoft FTEs on Azure production clusters, through building CI/CD pipelines at EPAM, to designing IPL live-streaming infrastructure at Jio, and now leading platform engineering at scale at Storable.

My philosophy: Infrastructure should be invisible. Developers should ship code, not fight tooling.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:

Kubernetes (EKS)
ArgoCD & GitOps
Terraform
Grafana Cloud (Mimir, Loki, Tempo)
Istio Service Mesh
AWS (60+ clusters)

02. Where I've Worked

Senior Engineering Manager @ Storable India

Aug 2023 — Present

Led DevOps operations across 20+ products and 60+ EKS clusters on AWS spanning payments, property management, and marketplace verticals.
Architected GitOps control plane using ArgoCD app-of-apps with 68 ApplicationSets — targeting 12 product realms and 6 environment types with label-based cluster selection and layered Helm overrides.
Defined architecture and oversaw development of a custom Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — Rails 8-backed, single pane of glass across 130+ projects and 1,200+ workloads with real-time AWS/K8s inventory and RBAC release workflows.
Built versioned Terraform modules via GitLab registry — CloudWatch + Grafana alerting, secrets management, multi-account support — enabling self-service infra provisioning.
Led full migration from Datadog to Grafana Cloud — metrics (Mimir), logging (Loki), and distributed tracing (Tempo) across 60+ clusters and 20+ products.
Led cloud migrations (Azure to AWS and GCP to AWS) with minimal downtime; modernised legacy infra dating to 1997.
Drove org-wide AI transformation — GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Glean, N8N, Ollama; built LLM-powered CI/CD code review bot.
Conducted deep database performance audits — PostgreSQL internals, query plans, indexing gaps, autovacuum tuning.
Managed Istio service mesh across 60+ clusters — mTLS, traffic management, JWT authentication, canary deployments.
Established a FinOps practice — built automated right-sizing recommendations, drove tooling migrations achieving 30%+ MoM cost reduction.
Built incident management framework with structured postmortems, SLA tracking, and automated escalation.
Served as AI Champion for India GCC — conducted seminars and workshops, defined usage policies, led security reviews.

03. Skills & Technologies

Cloud & Platform

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3)
GCP & Azure
Terraform
Karpenter & KEDA

Containers & Mesh

Kubernetes & Docker
Istio Service Mesh
DAPR
Helm & Kustomize

GitOps & CI/CD

ArgoCD & Argo Rollouts
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Azure DevOps

Observability

Grafana Cloud
Prometheus & Mimir
Loki & Tempo
Grafana OnCall

Security

External Secrets
Snyk & CrowdStrike
Cert-Manager
InfoSec & Compliance

Data & Databases

PostgreSQL & RDS
Redis & ElastiCache
AWS DMS & CDC
Redshift & Athena

AI & Automation

GitHub Copilot
Claude Code
Glean & N8N
Ollama (Gemma 4)

Leadership

Team Building & Hiring
Vendor & Budget Mgmt
M&A Due Diligence
OKR Alignment

04. Impact at Scale

0 K8s Clusters Managed

0 Production Workloads

0 Engineers Trained

0 Products in Portfolio

0 Cost Reduction MoM

0 Years Engineering Leadership

05. Things I've Built

Internal Developer Platform

Rails 8-backed single pane of glass across 130+ projects and 1,200+ workloads. Real-time AWS/K8s inventory, RBAC release workflows, Prometheus right-sizing engine, unified security dashboard, and integrations with Slack, Jira, GitLab, GitHub, and Grafana.

Ruby on Rails 8
Kubernetes
AWS
Prometheus
Snyk

ArgoCD Omnibus

Centralized GitOps control plane with 68 ApplicationSets targeting 12 product realms and 6 environment types. Label-based cluster selection with layered Helm overrides covering networking, security, and auto-scaling across 60+ clusters.

ArgoCD
Helm
Kubernetes
Kustomize
Vault

Grafana Observability Migration

Led full migration from Datadog to Grafana Cloud — metrics (Mimir), logging (Loki), and distributed tracing (Tempo) across 60+ clusters. Built product-specific dashboards, synthetic monitoring, and on-call escalation policies via Grafana OnCall.

Grafana Cloud
Mimir
Loki
Tempo
Prometheus

AI Code Review Bot

LLM-powered CI/CD bot ("Storable Steve") that automatically reviews merge requests. Uses Claude via AWS Bedrock with Jira context for intelligent code review, security scanning, and best-practice enforcement across all product repositories.

Claude / Bedrock
GitLab CI
Python
Jira API

06. Awards & Recognition

Storable Core Value Award

Storable

Excellence in cross-team collaboration

Jio Star Award

Jio Platform Limited

Ownership mindset on large-scale engagements

EPAM Hackathon Runner-up

EPAM Systems

Blue-green deployment strategy

Mindtree Triple Recognition

Mindtree Ltd

Outstanding Performer (3 yrs) · Pillar Award FY16-18 · Master Mind Award

Certifications

Diploma in Management — EPAM 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team — FranklinCovey Azure Infrastructure Solutions (70-533) Azure Solution Architect (70-535)

07. What's Next?

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing engineering leadership, platform engineering, DevOps at scale, or interesting collaboration opportunities. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, my inbox is always open.

Say Hello

Deepak Kumar Sahu.

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